Registered: Jun 05, 2004
Total Posts: 3668
Country: United States
Your motivation must come from within. You need to want to do it, as without that inner desire, you are only forcing yourself to do something you don't want to.
I can empathize with a long day. I work 8-5, and commute 2 hours each way, so my work day is usually 13-14 hours long, sometimes longer because of train/rail delays, or traffic.
You don't say what you are interested in shooting, so it's hard to suggest a remedy. I myself, am a nature and wildlife shooter in my spare time, so when I look for motivation, I look to what I myself have achieve in the past or what my own peers have.
All the images below have been shot by me in the last year over the winter here in the States, all in sub-freezing weather. I usually begin the day at about 3 or 4AM, grumbling, wondering why I am up at such an ungodly hour, when my warm bed is calling me. A cup of caffiene, and usually a 2-3 hour car ride later, I find something I am after.... Some days I succeed and think "wow, this has been one of the best days of my life" and some days I come home empty. But its usually on the days I stay home I say to myself "I wonder what I might have found today". In any event, I always have my favorite subject at home, my 2 year old daughter, who loves to not only have her picture taken, but also enjoys taking pictures herself.
macro is the way i stay sane